F-16 Reference
5th Gen Fighters
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Found 418 F-16s, displaying 331-345
[Sorted by Date]
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Local S/N |
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AF/Unit |
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| 30 Jan 2001 |
[act] |
85572 |
85-1572 |
 149 FS |
F-16D Block 30B |
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Collided with F-16C (86-0228) at 18:45 hours with night vision goggles over Cape Charles, Virginia. F-16C (86-0228) passed this F-16 and the top of the fins on the AiM-9's cut across the fuselage all the way up to bulkhead 243 which is just behind the canopy. They were able to land safely at Langley AFB, Virginia. The D-model gave up its wing for the C-model which once wing replaced flew home. The D-model left Langley AFB on a truck to Hill AFB, Utah. Repair work was carried out at Ogden ALC by the 649th Combat Logistics Support Squadron. Cost to repair was $1.2 million, 26000 work hours and over a 2 year period. Aircraft was delivered back to the 149th FS by March 31st, 2004.
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| 30 Jan 2001 |
[act] |
86228 |
86-0228 |
149 FS |
F-16C Block 30C |
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Collided with F-16D (#85-1572), but both had landed safely at Langley AFB, Virginia. They were flying at 18:45 hours with night vision goggles over Cape Charles, Virginia when they hit. A wing was taken from the D-model and attached to the C-model so that it could fly home safely. The D-model was taken from Langley AFB by truck to Hill AFB, Utah where it was repaired over the next two years.
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| 21 Mar 2001 |
[i/a] |
83169 |
83-1169 |
40 FLTS |
F-16B Block 15Q |
AIB Report
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Aircraft suffered a class A mishap when it ingested a pelican at Eglin AFB and the motor shelled out. The aircraft landed safely at Duke Auxiliary Field and fire broke out. Both pilots managed to walk away without injury but aircraft had major fire damage. The aircraft is now being used on the test range at Eglin AFB, Florida.
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| 21 Mar 2001 |
[w/o] |
87330 |
87-0330 |
522 FS |
F-16C Block 30J |
News Article
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Engine failed over Melrose Bombing Range. Captain Dawn Hokaj ejected with only minor injuries around 20 miles west of Clovis, New Mexico. The no. 3 bearing in the engine broke apart causing the engine failure. Failure of the no. 3 bearing was a known problem with those engines
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| 03 Apr 2001 |
[w/o] |
90837 |
90-0837 |
14 FS |
F-16D Block 50A |
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Went down over the Pacific Ocean 12 miles northwest of Misawa, Japan. Pilot, First Lieutenant Mark Hadley, ejected and was rescued by a Japanese military HH-60 after 35 minutes of being in the ater. Cause of the crash was FOD to the engine. This caused a blade from the third stage compressor to come loose which punctured the engine’s compressor section. Pilot as a result was unable to re-light the engine. The aircraft was from the 14th FS but the pilot belonged to the 13th FS. In May, 80% of the wreckage was recovered, including the engine. A US Navy diver Seaman Matthew Draughon was killed on May 5, 2001 during the recovery of debris.
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| 01 May 2001 |
[act] |
90725 |
90-0725 |
4 FS |
F-16C Block 40H |
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Main gear collapsed and a crewmember was injured by the port wing stabilizer. The tail of the aircraft came down and wrecked the ventral fins. Here are the events as described by that crewmember: "There had been changes made to the order in which normal maintenance inspections were performed. Basically our normal way of doing things had been changed. These changes are what allowed this mishap to occur. The evening before I reported for work my swing-shift counterpart found a cracked landing gear handle lense. In the course of fixing the handle someone inadvertently left the handle in the up position. Therefore when the pilot started the jet the main landing gear retracted. I received an L2 compression fracture, a dislocated right ankle, and a broken fibula". This incident happened at Hato, Curaçao. All flying was cancelled for the day. The aircraft was returned to flying status by May 18th, 2001.
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| 12 Jun 2001 |
[w/o] |
89063 |
89-2063 |
35 FS |
F-16C Block 40F |
News Article
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Lost forty miles southeast of Kunsan AB, Korea taking the life of pilot, First Lieutenant Randolph E. Murff. It is speculated the aircraft struck an electrical pole before impacting a rice paddy. Cause was later determined to be due to spatial disorientation. The aircraft ended up in an inverted steep dive that was not recoverable (13,000 feet, 460 knots, 59° nose low, 165° left bank). The pilot ejected out of the envelope (one second before impact).
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| 06 Jul 2001 |
[w/o] |
90815 |
90-0815 |
77 FS |
F-16C Block 50B |
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Impacted the Atlantic Ocean at 10:40 hours about 40 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina. Pilot, Captain Mitchell Bulmann, was sadly killed. The aircraft was on a air-to-air training mission. Cause is believed to be G-LOC.
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| 17 Jul 2001 |
[w/o] |
78100 |
78-0100 |
416 FTS |
F-16B Block 5 |
News Article
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The pilot, Major Aaron George and Lockheed photographer Judson Brohmer were killed. Incident occurred at 7:00 hours about 30 miles east of China Lake. The F-16 was flying a photo/safety chase position on a 2nd F-16 on a test mission to demonstrate reliability improvements on a MALD (Miniature Air Launch Decoy). Following the launch of the MALD, the MALD's engine failed. The MALD descended at a 20 degree angle until 8,996 feet where a drogue shoot deployed followed by a recovery parachute at 7,000 feet. It drifted into mountainous terrain. The mishap aircraft was collecting video coverage of the MALD's launch, recovery, and landing. In order to maintain optimum position for video taping the MALD, the pilot had to execute barrel roll maneuvers to avoid passing the MALD. As the MALD's drogue shoot deployed, the mishap pilot executed a 3rd barrel roll maneuver, to maintain position which placed him at a steep, inverted, high speed dive that he was unable to recover. The crash was caused by channelized attention on the MALD and loss of altitude awareness.
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| 18 Jul 2001 |
[w/o] |
89050 |
89-2050 |
510 FS |
F-16C Block 40E |
News Article
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While flying to an Operation Northern Watch mission an engine failure brought the aircraft down. Captain Michael Nelson ejected safely at 10:09 hours at 11 miles east of Batman, Turkey at 2,000 feet. Rescue was by a HH-60G from 305th RQS. The pilot heared a loud bang followed by a buzzing noise only 35 minutes after take-off. RPM decreased and FTIT increased. He attempted 9 airstarts without success. The cause of the crash was a failure of the number 4 bearing assembly.
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| 23 Jul 2001 |
[w/o] |
88167 |
88-0167 |
308 FS |
F-16D Block 42A |
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Impacted the ground near Gila Bend, Arizona. Pilot, Major Robert P. Egan, ejected safely. Cause was fasteners came loose in the engine and caused a cascade effect which lead to the engine seizing and fire.
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| 26 Jul 2001 |
[w/o] |
86226 |
86-0226 |
113 FS |
F-16C Block 30C |
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Crashed near Parkersburg, Illinois at 14:40 hours. The pilot, Major Patrick Wade, ejected safely. Cause of the crash was that the no. 4 bearing seased.
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| 17 Oct 2001 |
[act] |
88533 |
88-0533 |
4 FS |
F-16C Block 40D |
AIB Report
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Went off the runway during takeoff roll at Hill AFB at 21:50 hours on a night training flight. The aircraft veered off the runway forcing the pilot to eject. Cause was a blown nose gear tire which resulted in loss of directional control. Pilot, Captain Casey J. Tidgewell, sustained only minor injuries. Damage to the aircraft was significant. Cause of the crash was a blown nose wheel which severed important wires and control was lost.
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| 25 Oct 2001 |
[act] |
84217 |
84-1217 |
62 FS |
F-16C Block 25C |
AIB Report
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Major Yarema Sos ejected while the landing gear collapsed on touch-down at Luke AFB. The aircraft came down three quarters of the way down the runway. The F-16 was caught in the turbulence of the aircraft before him and hit the ground well over the structural design limit of the aircrafts landing gear system resulting in a collapse.
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| Jan 2002 |
[act] |
91377 |
91-0377 |
77 FS |
F-16C Block 50D |
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Struck by lightning during a sand storm while deployed for OSW. Was the lead aircraft of a two ship formation at an altitude of 35,000 to 40,000 feet when the wall of sand surrounded the aircraft and there was nowhere to go but through the storm. When the lightning strike occurred, the airspeed dropped to zero and the aircraft fell into a flat spint in the orange sand sky. Fortunately the pilot recovered but bottomed out at an altitude of only 500 feet.
Chris, the Crew Chief of #377 describes the experience:
"We got the squacks saying my jet was code three for a lightning strike and the other was code one. That was strange to me because there really wasn't too much lightning out there and I had never seen a jet get struck by lightning. Anyway when the jet came in 15-20 minutes later, I noticed immediately something wrong, the ECM pod nose cone was gone! I hooked up the comm cord and said to the pilot like I always do "How are you doing Sir' did you have a good flight?" The only words out of his mouth were "I almost died, your jet saved me, if you could get me out as fast as you can." So as normal I shut him down, and it wasn't till I got a closer look that I noticed all kinds of things wrong; all of the leading edge tape was gone, the static dischargers broke off, the electronic nose cones of the cluster bombs he was carrying were gone and because it was our squadron jet, all the probes that I had polished were sandblasted… After that we had nothing but problems, a standby generator problem which ended up being the harness through the 341 bulkhead, a FLCS problem which was a harness in the right strake and a few flights later tension strut bushing problems that are still going on to this day." |
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Abbreviations and symbols:
| [act] |
Active |
[msh] |
Involved in Mishap |
[sto] |
Stored (e.g. at AMARC) |
| [cld] |
Cancelled order |
[o/o] |
On Order |
T/V |
LM Aero Type/Version (Construction) number |
| [emb] |
Embargoed |
[pre] |
Preserved (museum, gateguard) |
[w/o] |
Write-off |
| [i/a] |
Instructional Airframe |
[scr] |
Scrapped |
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